Cell Phone Plan for Young Kids
Cell phones are not just the newest digital gadgets for adults, they are the favoriates for kids. When it comes to cell phone usage, you have to be very careful about what plan works best for kids. These considerations include price, service, type of phone and its cellular phone accessories, and what kind of plan a teenager from maybe thirteen to seventeen years old would really want.
The first thing parents usually worry about is that their child will be on the phone all the time and won’t want to complete their homework or even want to go outside. This will be easily fixed with a low minute plan. All service providers such as Cingular or T-mobile have plans ranging from sixty minutes to five hundred minutes, all the way to unlimited minutes per month. These plans range in price as well from $29.99 all the way past a hundred dollars a month. Usually, kids don’t need a plan over five hundred minutes because their social schedules should not be exceeding nine hours of talking a month.
In the aspect of cell phones, teenagers don’t need expensive phones, but they will hate you if you get them the generic box that “couldn’t be less cool.” So to avoid such scorn, I would recommend a cheap phone that comes with the contract that won’t cost more than a hundred dollars. Almost all wireless companies are offering the stylish RAZR from around twenty dollars at Cingular to seventy dollars at Verizon. These affordable phones are, of course, razor thin and have a variety of functions including mp3 capability, cameras, the option of a GPS system, and a variety of other options. Another advantage to getting cheaper phones like the RAZR, is the fact that you can find cheap cell phone accessories to go along with your teenager’s new phone. Carrying cases, chargers, batteries, and Bluetooth headsets are only a fraction of the price of more expensive smart phones. Stylish cases are only around ten dollars and headsets that are usually over one hundred dollars can be bought at around forty.